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May 2023 favorites
The May stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘A Strange And Sometimes Sadness’ by Kazuo Ishiguro
- ‘Some Of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby’ by Donald Barthelme
- ‘My Father’s Friends’ by William Maxwell
- ‘The Young Painters’ by Nicole Krauss
- ‘The First Day’ by Edward P. Jones
- ‘The Things They Carried’ by Tim O’Brien
- ‘Panther Eyes’ by Luisa Valenzuela
- ‘The Baby Party’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘The War Of The Alligators’ by Horacio Quiroga
- ‘New York Girl’ by John Updike
- ‘Baster’ by Jeffrey Eugenides
- ‘Circus At Dawn’ by Thomas Wolfe
- ‘Future Cat’ by Xuan Juliana Wang
- ‘A Nursery Tale’ by Vladimir Nabokov
- ‘The Sorrows Of Gin’ by John Cheever
- ‘Tomorrow’ by Lu Xun
- ‘Apple Cake’ by Allegra Goodman
- ‘When We Were Happy We Had Other Names’ by Yiyun Li
- ‘Everything Is Far From Here’ by Cristina Henríquez
- ‘The Flood’ by Emile Zola
- ‘Now More Than Ever’ by Zadie Smith
- ‘Talpa’ by Juan Rulfo
- ‘Gideon’ by ZZ Packer
- ‘Alms’ by Stuart Dybek
- ‘They Tell Me… Now I Know’ by Shay Youngblood
- ‘In The West Country’ by Leslie Norris
- ‘The Starlet Apartments’ by Jonathan Lethem
- ‘The Voter’ by Chinua Achebe
- ‘The $30,000 Bequest’ by Mark Twain
- ‘The Huntress’ by Sofia Samatar
- ‘Two Ruminations On A Homeless Brother’ by David Means
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‘Alms’ by Stuart Dybek
Alms by Stuart Dybek, 2014 Continue reading
September 2022 favorites
The September stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Willing’ by Lorrie Moore
- ‘The Man Who Knew Belle Starr’ by Richard Bausch
- ‘A Father-To-Be’ by Saul Bellow
- ‘A Vermont Tale’ by Mark Helprin
- ‘The Five Wounds’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
- ‘Nemecia’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
- ‘Where The Mountains Are’ by Bill Barich
- ‘Seeing Clear’ by Cara Blue Adams
- ‘Sugar Babies’ by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
- ‘The Beautiful Mountains’ by John Cheever
- ‘Afternoon In Linen’ by Shirley Jackson
- ‘Sauerkraut Soup’ by Stuart Dybek
- ‘Our Lady Of Peace’ by ZZ Packer
- ‘Sunday Lunch’ by Nancy Hale
- ‘Benediction’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ‘With Reference To An Incident At A Bridge’ by William Maxwell
- ‘Along The Frontage Road’ by Michael Chabon
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‘Sauerkraut Soup’ by Stuart Dybek
Sauerkraut Soup by Stuart Dybek, 1980 Continue reading
December 2020 favorites
The December stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Mirrorball’ by Mary Gaitskill
- ‘Accident Brief’ by Karen Russell
- ‘The Unknown Masterpiece’ by Honoré de Balzac
- ‘Drinking Coffee Elsewhere’ by ZZ Packer
- ‘The Half-Husky’ by Margaret Laurence
- ‘Home For Christmas’ by Carson McCullers
- ‘Seven’ by Edwidge Danticat
- ‘A Room Forever’ by Breece D’J Pancake
- ‘The Weirdos’ by Ottessa Moshfegh
- ‘Irina’ by Mavis Gallant
- ‘The Lily-White Boys’ by William Maxwell
- ‘The Pocketbook Game’ by Alice Childress
- ‘The Dancer’ by Patricia Highsmith
- ‘The Yo-Yo’ by P.D. James
- ‘Temptation’ by Clarice Lispector
- ‘Ordinary Nudes’ by Stuart Dybek
- ‘Neighbors’ by Anthony Tognazzini
- ‘The Canebrake’ by Mohammed Mrabet
- ‘Odd Behavior’ by Lydia Davis
- ‘The Warmth Of Things’ by Nélida Piñón
- ‘Times’ by Ann Beattie
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‘Ordinary Nudes’ by Stuart Dybek
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February 2020 favorites
The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘Lunch At The Loyola Arms’ by Stuart Dybek
- ‘The Most Girl Part Of You’ by Amy Hempel
- ‘The Proxy Marriage’ by Maile Meloy
- ‘Snow’ by Ann Beattie
- ‘The Metal Bowl’ by Miranda July
- ‘A Talking Cure’ by Justin Taylor
- ‘Turgor’ by Mary Gaitskill
- ‘The Sock’ by Lydia Davis
- ‘The Tree Of Knowledge’ by Henry James
- ‘Life After High School’ by Joyce Carol Oates
- ‘My Sister’s Marriage’ by Cynthia Marshall Rich
- ‘Reading Lessons’ by Edwidge Danticat
- ‘Northeast Regional’ by Emma Cline
- ‘Show Don’t Tell’ by Curtis Sittenfeld
- ‘The Hanging Of The Schoolmarm’ by Robert Coover
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‘Lunch At The Loyola Arms’ by Stuart Dybek
Lunch At The Loyola Arms by Stuart Dybek, 1997 Continue reading
February 2017 favorites
The February stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘We Didn’t’ by Stuart Dybek
- ‘Separating’ by John Updike
- ‘A Retrieved Reformation’ by O. Henry
- ‘Postcard’ by Alice Munro
- ‘Aurora’ by Junot Diaz
- ‘Ligeia’ by Edgar Allan Poe
- ‘The Altar Of The Dead’ by Henry James
- ‘An Ounce Of Cure’ by Alice Munro
- ‘The Furnished Room’ by O. Henry
- ‘Transients In Arcadia’ by O. Henry
- ‘On The Gull’s Road’ by Willa Cather
- ‘The Skylight Room’ by O. Henry
- ‘How’ by Roxane Gay
- ‘Teller’s Ticket’ by Robert Flanagan
- ‘It Was Romance’ by Miranda July
- ‘The Romance Of A Busy Broker’ by O. Henry
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